Deep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale

By M. Rex, R. Etter. 2010

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Diversity of the arctic deep-sea benthos (2011, background): “Several paradigms have emerged from deep-sea research in the past decades, including those of mid-depth peaks and latitudinal declines in diversity (Levin et al. 2001; Rex and Etter 2010).”
On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the sea floor (2015, background): “We note that Rex & Etter (2010) comprehensively summarized diversity gradients in relation to latitude and depth, both variables serving as proxies for productivity.”
Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps (2015, background): “While depth patterns are well studied for soft-sediment macrofauna in the deep sea [66], few studies have examined the influence of depth or hydrography on the diversity of hard substrates in the deep sea.”
Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea (2011, background): “Thus, regional diversity could be lower than originally anticipated and the most recent estimates of total deep-sea diversity of macrofauna are considerably less than 10 million species [11].”
Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity (2015, background): “These include remote regions such as the forests of southwest Amazonia (Bush & Lovejoy 2007, Hopkins 2007) but also poorly studied ecosystems such as the deep sea (Rex & Etter 2010) or the upper canopies of rainforests (Ellwood & Foster 2004).”
Deep-sea sponge grounds enhance diversity and abundance of epibenthic megafauna in the Northwest Atlantic (2013, background): “, 2008), both of which decrease with increasing depth (Gage and Tyler, 1991; Rowe et al., 1991; Rex and Etter, 2010).”
New perspectives in benthic deep-sea microbial ecology (2015, background): “In the last decades, the deep-sea exploration has resulted in the discovery of tens of previously completely unknown habitats and ecosystems, along with thousands of species of organisms inhabiting these remote systems (Gage and Tyler, 1991; Snelgrove, 1999; Teske and Sørensen, 2008; Rex and Etter, ”
Field and Laboratory Methods for DNA Studies on Deep-sea Isopod Crustaceans (2014, background): “verse taxa, but also represent one of the better known groups inhabiting the deep sea (Rex and Etter 2010).”
Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts? (2015, background): “Deep-sea meiofauna play important roles in the processing and redistribution of food reaching the abyssal seafloor (Rex and Etter 2010).”
Worldwide Analysis of Sedimentary DNA Reveals Major Gaps in Taxonomic Knowledge of Deep-Sea Benthos (2016, background): “, Hessler and Sanders, 1967; Sanders and Hessler, 1969), together with more recent studies (e.g., Snelgrove and Smith, 2002; Brandt et al., 2007; Rex and Etter, 2010) on bathyal and abyssal fauna, have challenged the long-held notion that the deep sea hosts a low diversity of metazoan organisms.”